Barbaria?
When the weavers of Lyon rose up in arms in 1831, the bourgeoisie remembered class. It remembered the invasions of those primitive peoples who assaulted the roman Empire, who they called barbarians, because their language sounded like noise. The weavers didn’t speak a language that the bourgeoisie could understand either. In the millenarian struggle between civilization and barbarism, the revolution is expressed in a language that is not the language of the masters, a language which the Empire of civilization cannot grasp. Each time throughout history that the exploited classes have risen up, they have carried along the same barbarism, the same human community against the exploitation. Barbaria is a place that resides in memory. It is there where the millenarian history of our class is kept, from the primitive communities to the worldwide human community. Barbaria is a place which unfolds in the struggle, it’s all that is incomprehensible, irrecuperable for capital. Barbaria is there, where the language of the masters doesn’t reach.